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Alexandre LeBorgne
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Gouverneur suppléant de l'Acadie; seigneur de Port-Royal
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Recensement de Port-Royal en 1686:
Alexandre Le Borgne, seigneur de Port-Royal, 43 ans; Marie de Saint-Etienne, 32 ans; Emmanuel, 11 ans; Marie, 9 ans; Alexandre, 7 ans; Jeanne, 5 ans
- Alexandre Leborgne son of Emmanuel Leborgne and Jeanne Francois was born on March 12, 1640 in the parish of Saint-Barthélemy in La Rochelle. He died around 1693 in Port-Royal in Acadie.
Historical Notes
May 1658
Alexandre Leborgne with fifty men seizes Fort de la Hève. During Thomas Temple's counterattack, Alexander was wounded and taken prisoner to London. Le Roy Louis XIV asked his ambassador to England to have Mr. Leborgne released.
1667
Prisoner, Alexandre Leborgne de Belle-Isle is released (Treaty of Breda of July 31).
1668
Alexandre was appointed alternate governor of the colony in place of his father and he now called himself Leborgne de Belle-Isle and returned to France.
1670
Alexandre returns to Acadia with the governor of Andigné de Grandfontaine to defend the Acadian interests of his family.
1671
Leborgne was threatened by the lawsuits undertaken in France by Dame Marie Menou d'Aulnay, Chanoinesse de Poussay (daughter of Charles Menou d'Aulnay and Jeanne Motin de Reux) who tried to repossess the land which had been conceded to her father.
According to Perrot. Belle-Isle was addicted to wine. Drunk, he sometimes conceded the same land simultaneously to several settlers; which did not fail to cause many inconveniences to the inhabitants.
De Meneval, in November 1685, went so far as to imprison him for a few days for disorders of this nature.
Port-Royal 1686 Census
Alexandre Leborgne de Belle-Isle, 43 years old; Marie de Sainte-Etienne, 32 years old; Etienne Archer, servant; Emmanuel. 11 years old; Marie, 9; Alexandre, 7; Jeanne, 5 years old.
On May 13, 1686, the intendant Desmeules confirms this in the enjoyment of all his previous concessions.
11 May 1690
Negotiation for the surrender of Port-Royal.
13 May 1690
Sir William Phips appoints him a member of the council to administer justice at Port-Royal.
2 May 1693
Concession of land in Port-Royal by Marie de Saint-Etienne de la Tour, widow of Alexandre Leborgne to Denis Petitot, according to what he left with a private note from the so-called Demoiselle, dated 10 May 1692
(S.G.C.F., vol.V, p.39).
A letter from Minister Des Friches de Meneval in 1688 revealed that the Leborgens were disputing at that time the expulsion they had suffered from some of their properties in Acadia. When Chanoinesse Poussay died in 1691, the trial was continued by her half-brothers and half-sisters, the children of Charles de Saint-Etienne de la Tour and Jeanne Motin de Reux. It was mainly one of their sons, Charles, who continued the litigation in France.
The descendants of Alexandre Leborgne de Bélisle and Marie de Saint-Etienne de la Tour were severely tested during the dispersal; Leborgne and Bélisle are now found in Canada and the United States.
Gilles Côté
2020-01-08
Sources:
Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes (S. White)
Généalogie et histoire des Landry (Marcel Landry)
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada, vol. 1 p. 447
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1640 - 1692 (51 years)